Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Status of dgit (good for NMUs and fast-forwarding Debian branches)"): > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 14:16:32 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Status of dgit (good for NMUs and > > fast-forwarding Debian branches)"): > > > No, I mean the upstream tarball contains autotools-generated files that > > > debian/rules deletes (and that aren't in my, or upstream's, git tree). > > > dpkg-source ignores removals when generating the debian diff, so they're > > > extracted by dpkg-source -x, but since the first step after that is > > > pretty much always debian/rules clean, they're irrelevant. > > > > If your source package contains the files, and your git tree does too, > > then you will find that debian/rules clean generates a dirty git tree. > > How do you deal with this problem at the moment ? > > You might want to read again. My git tree does *not* contain these > files.
Sorry, yes I evidently didn't read clearly enough. I think other responses in the thread discuss this situation. Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21049.51842.915507.13...@chiark.greenend.org.uk